Review of Toast at The Lowry by Natalie Anglesey
Review by Natalie Anglesey of Toast at The Lowry - 5 Stars***** The world premiere of Toast at The Lowry, is the stage adaptation of popular cookery writer Nigel Slater’s award-winning, best-seller. It's a memoir of his early childhood, and I both laughed and cried while reading about the misfortunes of a young boy from what could only be described as a dysfunctional family. He lost his mother at an early age, and she was then replaced by a detested step-mother. The film, starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Freddie Highmore worked a treat but how it would adapt to a stage play is the current question. Nigel told me he always saw it as a play and fortunately it’s been skilfully adapted by Henry Filloux-Bennett and sensitively directed by Jonnie Riordan. They have included much of the humour in the original book and cleverly recreated suburban England in the 1960s. They’ve done this through a clever combination of tastes and smells of Nigel’
